Bob Bennett, author of In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer, tells John J. Miller that he never intended to publish this memoir: “My daughter Peggy asked me in 2002 to start putting things down on paper because she thought I had an interesting life. And then … my other daughter Catherine, who works for the William Morris Agency, encouraged me to show it to one of their agents,” and the rest, as they say, is history. Miller notes the Forest Gump–like quality of the book; if it happened in the D.C. legal world, Bennett seems to have been there.